Jean-Yves Cuendet

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Jean-Yves Cuendet Nordic combination
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 20th February 1970 (age 50)
place of birth Le SentierSwitzerland
size 175 cm
Weight 67 kg
job Marketing manager
Career
society SC Les Esserts de Rive
National squad since 1990
status resigned
End of career 1998
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1994 Lillehammer team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 1995 Thunder Bay Season
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 29, 1990
 Overall World Cup 08. ( 1992/93 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 0 0 1
 

Jean-Yves Cuendet (born February 20, 1970 in Le Sentier , Switzerland ) is a former Swiss Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Cuendet, who started for SC Les Esserts de Rive , celebrated his greatest success at the 1994 Winter Olympics when he won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Hippolyt Kempf and Andreas Schaad .

He was able to repeat this podium a year later at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 . Together with Markus Wüst , Armin Krugel and Stefan Wittwer , he achieved third place for Switzerland behind Japan and Norway.

In the Nordic Combined World Cup , Cuendet started for the first time in the 1990/91 season at the race in Oberwiesenthal, where he immediately finished eighth. In his 19 World Cup starts, however, he only made it onto the podium once in third in Sapporo .

In the 1992/93 season he achieved his best overall placement with his eighth place in the overall World Cup.

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